| Abstract | 第1-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| ·Objective of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Rationale of the Present Study | 第15页 |
| ·Research questions | 第15页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter II Literature Review | 第17-37页 |
| ·Previous Research on the Writing in ESL and Foreign Language | 第17-24页 |
| ·The Study of Writing | 第17页 |
| ·The Process of Writing | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Product of Writing | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Context of Writing | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Teaching of Writing | 第22-24页 |
| ·Previous Research on Pattern drills in Language Teaching | 第24-29页 |
| ·The Sequencing of Structural Pattern Drills | 第24-27页 |
| ·Pattern drill in English Teaching of China | 第27-29页 |
| ·Significance of Sentence Skills to High School Students' English Writing | 第29-31页 |
| ·Characteristics and Evaluation Principles of the Writing Task in College Entrance Exam | 第29-30页 |
| ·Requirements and Aims of Writing Described in The English Curriculum Criterion | 第30-31页 |
| ·Some Types of Sentences Made by Chinese Students | 第31页 |
| ·Sentence Patterns and Sentence Structure: English vs. Chinese | 第31-37页 |
| ·Four Sentence Patterns of English | 第31-33页 |
| ·Three Major Contrasts between English and Chinese Sentence Structures | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter III Theoretical Framework | 第37-44页 |
| ·Introduction | 第37页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundation | 第37-39页 |
| ·Zone of Proximal Development | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Concept of Scaffolding Instruction | 第40-41页 |
| ·Scaffolding as a Teaching Strategy | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter IV Research Methodology | 第44-50页 |
| ·The Experiment | 第44-49页 |
| ·Purpose | 第44-45页 |
| ·Participants | 第45页 |
| ·Data of the Students’Writing Maturity before the Experiment | 第45页 |
| ·Design | 第45页 |
| ·Procedures | 第45-48页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第48-49页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第49-50页 |
| ·Purpose | 第49页 |
| ·Participants | 第49页 |
| ·Procedures | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter V Results and Discussion | 第50-61页 |
| ·Results of the Experiment | 第50-56页 |
| ·The discrepancy between the experimental class and the control class before the experiment | 第50-52页 |
| ·The discrepancy between the experimental class and the control class after the experiment | 第52-54页 |
| ·The discrepancy of the experimental class between pretest and posttest | 第54-55页 |
| ·The discrepancy of the control class between pretest and posttest | 第55-56页 |
| ·Results of the Questionnaire | 第56-58页 |
| ·Discussions | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter VI Conclusion | 第61-65页 |
| ·Main findings | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Implications of the Study | 第62页 |
| ·Limitations | 第62-63页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第63-65页 |
| References | 第65-69页 |
| Appendix 1 The Examples of Teaching Materials in Sentence-pattern drilling | 第69-74页 |
| Appendix 2 The teaching materials of “One sentence with different expressions” | 第74-80页 |
| Appendix 3 Performances of Different Aspects of Students | 第80-81页 |
| Appendix 4 Students' Attitudes towards the Writing Method | 第81-82页 |
